Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rockfield (Clanmorris By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockfield (Clanmorris By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76942, -8.95902
- SMR number
- MA092-058----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, at a junction of four field walls, located on a rise in undulating terrain with good views, most extensive to N–NE.
Raised oval area (22.8m N–S; 28.5m E–W) defined N–E by a scarp with a broad external slope, and elsewhere by a vertical, partly stone-faced scarp which serves as a field boundary.
The interior is level and grassy, with a slight slope down from E of centre to E. Sections of the scarp at ENE and NNW have been broken down by farm stock. The perimeter is ringed with thorn bushes, brambles and gorse.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.